Christmas Crafts - Easy Christmas Craft Ideas

Soon it will be Christmas, when Santa will come through the chimney and leave little gifts for boys and girls. Why don’t you make Santa something this Christmas? He’ll surely be happy to know that you care for him as much as he does for you! I have collected some Christmas craft ideas to get you started.

Jingle Bell Door Hanger

Materials

• Some metal jingle bells
• Heavy gauge wire
• Wire cutters and pliers
• Curling ribbons
• 1-inch metal rings (key ring)

How to make the door hanger

• First decide on how long you want the hangers to be when they are complete. Add two inches to the length you have decided and cut the piece of wire.
• Use pliers to wrap one end of the wire around the key chain or metal loop once or twice, this part will be later used for hanging.
• String the jingle bells onto the wire leaving wire at the end to form a secure loop.
• Then add several pieces of ribbon to the loop at the bottom and curl.
• It’s now ready to hang on the door.

Candy Cane Reindeer

Materials

• A six inch wrapped candy cane
• Some ribbon
• 2 wiggle eyes
• Red or brown pompoms
• 2 pipe cleaners
• Some craft glue or a glue gun

How to make the candy cane reindeer

• Leave the wrapping on the candy cane and then glue eyes on the rounded face of the candy cane.
• Glue a red pompom on the face for a nose.
• On the straight part of the candy cane, tie a ribbon into a bow.
• Cut one of the pipe cleaners into half and wrap the other full pipe cleaner around the crook of the candy cane to begin the antlers.
• Now use the cut pipe cleaners to make the antlers.

Pretzel Wreath

Materials

• Little pretzels
• Some curling ribbon
• Glue

How to make the pretzel wreath

• First string the curling ribbon through the pretzel.
• Use an under over/over under pattern so that the pretzels remain flat.
• As you form a circle, apply glue to secure each pretzel.
• Add another layer of pretzels on the top and glue on a sprig of pine or holly.
• Your decoration or gift is ready!

Shining Snowball Ornament

Materials

• Plastic pushpins (clear or white)
• Small Styrofoam balls
• Some satin ribbon
• Glitter spray (optional)

How to make the shining snowball ornament

• Insert the pushpins into the Styrofoam balls until they are completely covered.
• Make a loop using the satin ribbons for hanging. Use one of the pushpins to secure the loop into the ball.
• Now lightly spray with glitter spray to add a sparkling effect.
• Once the glitter is dry, hang this pretty ornament on your tree.

Fun Foam Santa

Materials

• Small pieces of foam in three colors – red, white and flesh
• Small pink and white colored pompoms
• Tiny google eyes
• White curling ribbon
• A pair of scissors
• Pin backing or magnet
• A craft or tacky glue

How to make the fun foam Santa

• First cut a hat out of the red craft foam.
• Now cut a small cloud shape out of the white foam. Glue this on the hat.
• Then cut a small half oval face shape out of the flesh colored foam.
• Glue the hat onto the face and also glue a white pompom at the top of the hat.
• Curl about 5 ribbons and glue it to the face. Place one near the ears, one on each side and three at the chin.
• Glue the small pink pompom close to the beard for a nose. Use glue to place the google eyes near the nose.
• Lastly, glue on a pin back or a magnet so that you can either wear it on show it off on the fridge.

Sparkling Beaded Napkin Rings

Materials

• A few tinsel pipe cleaners
• Some metallic shiny pony beads

How to make a sparkling beaded necklace

• Bead approximately 24 beads to the pipe cleaner. Leave about 2 inches on each side.
• Use the beaded segment to make a circle.
• Secure this by twisting the pipe cleaner once or twice.
• Once this is done, loop the remaining pipe cleaner segment around a pencil to make the curly design on top.

Pine Cone Angel

Materials

• A medium sized pinecone
• Sheet moss
• Some dried or silk leaves
• A wooden disk or ball
• Tacky or white glue
• Craft paint (flesh colored)
• Fine tipped black permanent marker
• A pink marker, crayon, blush makeup or lipstick
• A small length of rickrack, wire edged ribbon or metallic cord
• Spray sealer, decoupage medium or spray paint (optional)
• Invisible fish line or thread (optional)

How to make a pinecone angel

• Select a pinecone that has open petals and a flat bottom.
  Use two dry leaves for the angels wings, if you desire you can use four wings too. If using four wings, glue them together in pairs using small dots of white glue between the leaves.
• If you like, you can protect the leaves with a coating of decoupage medium or spray sealer. You can even decorate it with gold spray paint.
• Glue the leaves at the pack of the pinecone.
• Now paint the wooden disk/wooden ball in flesh toned paint and let it dry. Draw the facial features first in pencil and then trace over them with a fine tipped permanent black marker. While at this you could use add a little color to the cheeks with the blush/lipstick or marker.
• Using glue stick small pieces of sheet moss all around the edge of the wooden disk.
• Then cut a small length of gold rickrack, gold cord or even thin gold wire and use this to make a circular halo for the top of the angel’s head. Stick this, using glue.
• Now put the angel’s head into place.
• If you wish to hang this angel, tie an invisible thread or fish line to one of the pinecones petals near the head at the back.